Understanding post-tonal music
By: Miguel A. Roig-Francolí.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780072936247
Subjects: Music -- 20th century -- Analysis, appreciation; Music theory -- History -- 20th century; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Understanding Post-Tonal Music explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music. The book is intended for undergraduate or general graduate courses on the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music. The aim of the book is to increase the accessibility of post-tonal music by providing students with tools for understanding issues like pitch organization, rhythm and meter, form, texture, and aesthetics. By presenting the music first and then deriving the theory, Understanding Post-Tonal Music leads students to greater understanding and appreciation of this challenging and important repertoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-370) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: An overview of twentieth-century compositional styles; title: Pitch centricity and composition with motivic cells; title: Pitch centricity and symmetry; title: Introduction to pitch-class set theory; title: Analyzing atonal music; title: Drawing on (and reinterpreting) the past; title: And inventing the future; title: Twelve-tone music I : an introduction; title: Twelve-tone music II : invariance, symmetry, and combinatoriality; title: Serialism : developments after 1945; title: Expanding the limits of musical temporality; title: Aleatory music, sound mass, and beyond; title: Where past and future meet; title: Simplifying means; title: Into the twenty-first century.